By KAREN MATTHEWS,
Associated Press Writer
4/14/2008
Here we have stated in concrete terms what Americans are
willing to go through to remove a perceived “Curse” (A bloodless, non-occult
curse) that had been put on of all things a new “Sports Stadium.” While the
baseball team’s president pontificates here that he did not consider the buried
rival teams jersey of any significance, we see that the actions performed in
this article to remove this accursed object, and to cleanse this stadium of its
unclean presence, is in fact far more, and far above what any Christian will do
for themselves as to the removal of the curse of sin and eternal death, and to
cleanse themselves of the accursed things in their lives until they have been
fully cleansed and rise in newness of life and the power of the Holy Spirit. My
friends it is time to dig deep, it is time to break up the fallow ground of
your hardened hearts, in preparation for the coming rain of God. Fill this
valley with ditches unto the cleansing of your heart and soul, for I hear the
sound of the coming of the abundance of rain, that
shall pour forth. And fill everyone to the capacity they have so dug in their
heart and soul.
After locating the shirt in a service corridor behind what will be a
restaurant in the new Yankee Stadium, construction workers jackhammered
through the concrete Sunday and pulled it out.
The team said it learned that a Red Sox-rooting construction worker had
buried a shirt in the new
Yankees president Randy Levine said team officials at first considered
leaving the shirt where it was.
“The first thought was, you know, it’s never a good thing to be buried in
cement when you’re in
On Saturday, construction workers who remembered the employee, Gino Castignoli phoned in tips about the shirt’s location.
“We had anonymous people come tell us where it was, and we were able to find
it,” said Frank Gramarossa, a project executive with
Turner Construction, the general contractor on the site.
It took about five hours of drilling Saturday to locate the shirt under 2
feet of concrete, he said.
On Sunday, Levine and Yankees CEO Lonn Trost watched as Gramarossa and
foreman Rich Corrado finished the job and pulled the
shirt from the rubble.
In shreds from the jackhammers, the shirt still bore the letters “Red Sox”
on the front. It was a David
Ortiz jersey, No. 34.
Trost said the Yankees had discussed possible
criminal charges against Castignoli with the district
attorney’s office.
“We will take appropriate action since fortunately we do know the name of
the individual,” he said.
A spokesman for Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson said Sunday he did
not know whether any criminal charges might apply.
“It’s typical Yankees,” Castignoli told the Boston
Herald on Monday. “It’s not like I snuck in there. It didn’t do any structural
damage. I didn’t put anyone in harm’s way.”
Castignoli, 46, said he became a Red Sox fan
during his childhood in 1975 when he idolized slugger Jim Rice.
As construction began for the new Yankee Stadium, Castignoli
said his union got after him to work on the project. The Red Sox fan was
reluctant.
“I would not go near Yankee Stadium, not for all the hot dogs in the world,”
he told the Herald.
But he relented, and hatched the plan to plant the jersey. He said he worked
just a single day at the stadium project.
“It was worth it,” he said.
Levine said the shirt would be cleaned up and sent to the Jimmy Fund, a
charity affiliated with
“Hopefully the Jimmy Fund will auction it off and we’ll take the act that
was a very, very bad act and turn it into something beautiful,” he said.
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